Everyday Ethics and Social Change by Anna Peterson

Everyday Ethics and Social Change by Anna Peterson

Author:Anna Peterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy/Ethics And Moral Philosophy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-12-13T00:00:00+00:00


It is true that there are grim arrangements. Beware of judging them by whatever human values are in style. As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life—all this is its great marvel and has an ethics of its own. Live in Nature, and you will soon see that for all its nonhuman rhythm, it is no cave of pain. As I write, I think of my beloved birds of the great beach, and of their beauty and their zest of living. And if there are fears, know also that Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.41



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